Gender and Contemporary Horror in Television

Introduction; Steven Gerrard Part One: The Monstrous Feminine 1. 'She's that kind of a woman': Tracing the gender and sexual politics of the female vampire via The Hunger and American Horror Story: Hotel; Chloe Benson 2. 'Is this a chick thing now?': The feminism of Z NATION between Quality and Trash TV; Nadine Dannenberg 3. Weeping Angels: Doctor Who's (De)Monstrous Feminine; Khara Lukancic 4. The Representation of Older Women in Twenty-First Century Horror: An Analysis of Characters Played by Jessica Lange in American Horror Story; Natasha Parcei 5. 'She was not like I thought': The Woman as a Strange Being in Masters of Horror; Erika Moreno Tiburcio 6. The Monster Within: Lily in Penny Dreadful; Kylie Boon 7. Final Girls and Female Serial Killers: A Review of the Slasher Television Series from a Gender Perspective; Víctor Hernández-Santaolalla Part Two: The Monstrous Masculine 8. 'Is Hannibal in love with me?' Gender changes in the Television series Hannibal; Clare Smith 9. 'I'm pissed off, and I'm angry, and we need your permission to kill someone': Frustrated Masculinities in Charlie Brooker's Dead Set; Lauren Stephenson 10. The Problematic Relationship with Sympathetic Vampires in the TV series The Vampire Diaries; Fernando Canet 11. So Many Chick Flick Moments: Dean Winchester's Centrifugal Revolution; Susan Cosby Ronnenberg Part Three: The Monstrous Other 12. Depictions of Gender, Homes and Families in the TV version of The Exorcist; Samantha Holland 13. How iZombie Rethinks the Zombie Paradigm; Dahlia Schweitzer 14. Damaged Survivors in the Walking Dead. Gender and the Narrative Arcs of Carol and Daryl as Protectors and Nurturers; Marta F. Suarez 15. 'Some normal apple-pie life': Gendering Home in Supernatural; Jessica George 16. Female Audiences' Reception of American Horror Story in Greece; Despina Chronaki and Liza Tsaliki 17. 'Mother, I've really had enough of this! You can't just leave me alone in this abyss where I can't find you!' Norman/Norma and